Solid_Slug
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Re: Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes
But is it necessarily a bad thing if Big Boss isn't depicted as outright megalomaniac human a-hole. He can still be a threat to many people/countries and even though he might have some noble ideas, those might have twisted along the way and he would be just too dangerous to be left alive. And wasn't Solid Snake rather loyal soldier in the beginning. I mean he had a lot to prove for Outer Heaven mission was his first big mission. So, if his orders are to rescue Gray Fox, defeat MG and destroy the OH, then that's how it is. He might feel for Big Boss and be hesitant to kill him at first, but in the end it would still be his duty and responsibility to do so. But all this doesn't mean that BB should be complete *********.
QTF.
Big Boss needs to transition away from being the tragic "hero". They started it a bit in Peace Walker, when he gave that chilling Outer Heaven speech, about becoming "revolutionaries, criminals, terrorists", if the times called for it. I hope that Kojima decides to show more of Big Boss' moral degeneration in the next MGS. Let him do some truly awful things to play with our emotions - to show that sometimes, even heroes need to be put down like rabid dogs.
However, with that said, the one thing that does concern me, is that if Big Boss remains "good" toward the end when he was defeated by Solid Snake. If Kojima still continues to depict him as a sympathetic good guy, will our perceptions of Solid Snake change? I'm willing to bet that something like that will screw up the series, beyond what we could possibly imagine.
But is it necessarily a bad thing if Big Boss isn't depicted as outright megalomaniac human a-hole. He can still be a threat to many people/countries and even though he might have some noble ideas, those might have twisted along the way and he would be just too dangerous to be left alive. And wasn't Solid Snake rather loyal soldier in the beginning. I mean he had a lot to prove for Outer Heaven mission was his first big mission. So, if his orders are to rescue Gray Fox, defeat MG and destroy the OH, then that's how it is. He might feel for Big Boss and be hesitant to kill him at first, but in the end it would still be his duty and responsibility to do so. But all this doesn't mean that BB should be complete *********.
I mean that for example in the end of Witcher 2, we find out more about this witcher assassin called Letho. Even though he seems to be just coldblooded ******* and a murderer, you kind of feel for him after hearing what he has to say. I almost walked away, but Letho had caused so much trouble and was too dangerous to be left alive. But he wasn't like true evil after all
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